Table 3.
Distribution of single zone air exchange (AER1z) and two zone air exchange (AER2z) (1/h) by city and season
| Air exchange (AER) (1/h) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City | Season | n Homes (samples) | AER perfluorocarbon tracer Method | Mean | s.e. | 5th | 25th | 50th | 75th | 95th |
| Edmonton | Summer | 8 (49) | Single Zone | 0.69 | 0.23 | 0.17 | 0.28 | 0.47 | 0.86 | 2.16 |
| Two Zone | 0.87 | 0.29 | 0.18 | 0.34 | 0.56 | 1.15 | 2.69 | |||
| Winter | 8 (37) | Single Zone | 0.37 | 0.09 | 0.15 | 0.19 | 0.28 | 0.53 | 0.83 | |
| Two Zone | 0.42 | 0.11 | 0.16 | 0.20 | 0.28 | 0.61 | 1.02 | |||
| Halifax | Summer | 9 (60) | Single Zone | 1.17 | 0.25 | 0.20 | 0.71 | 1.04 | 1.45 | 2.51 |
| Two Zone | 1.23 | 0.25 | 0.36 | 0.73 | 1.01 | 1.48 | 2.55 | |||
| Winter | 6 (33) | Single Zone | 0.35 | 0.05 | 0.21 | 0.28 | 0.33 | 0.36 | 0.59 | |
| Two Zone | 0.55 | 0.10 | 0.36 | 0.37 | 0.47 | 0.58 | 1.03 | |||
| Montreal | Winter | 13 (108) | Single Zone | 0.44 | 0.15 | 0.17 | 0.23 | 0.31 | 0.35 | 0.40 |
| Two Zone | 0.49 | 0.15 | 0.23 | 0.27 | 0.37 | 0.43 | 0.51 | |||
| All | All seasons | 35 (287) | Single Zone | 0.62 | 0.10 | 0.17 | 0.22 | 0.37 | 0.72 | 1.49 |
| Two Zone | 0.70 | 0.11 | 0.18 | 0.27 | 0.45 | 0.97 | 1.83 | |||